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Photo (Released) Dead Presidents Criterion Laserdisc Restoration
Posted by: alleycat - 2019-08-17, 08:46 PM - Forum: Released - Replies (20)

Hi All,

So I've done a few blu ray projects and have a lot more planned. One I am currently doing the planning work on is a Dead Presidents Criterion Laserdisc restoration. I have a 1080P HDTV file together with the DVD and a capture of the Criterion Laserdisc plus all the extra features. 

I'm fine with syncing up the audio and building the blu ray menu, but something I have never played about with is color. I've attached screenshots for all three versions, if your expert opinions would you change the color of the HDTV recording at all? The DVD seems a little off to my eyes, the HDTV is more in line with the laserdisc just a little brighter. 

If the consensus is the color should be changed what is the best way to do it? I've read about using Dr Dre's Color Matching Tool to create a 3D LUT and then loading this into after affects - is that the best way?

Any input would be much appreciated.

Thanks

HDTV:

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Laserdisc:

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DVD:

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HDTV:

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Laserdisc:

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DVD:

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HDTV:

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Laserdisc:

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DVD:


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  Avengers: Endgame - UAR
Posted by: spoRv - 2019-08-16, 09:45 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (22)

Someone interested?

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/JBM1FNNU

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  "La Classe américaine" HD reconstruction
Posted by: Beber - 2019-08-15, 11:01 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (41)

Hey, guys.

For those who don't know this non-movie, most likely most people here except for some French members, La Classe américaine is a comedy montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed by real French dubbing actors to fit a new story... which basically rips off the premise of Citizen Kane.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321715/

"The project started when Warner agreed to leave the French TV channel Canal+ to use its 4000-movies catalog free of charge and rights for a month (except some of them, like Clint Eastwood's ones). The directors Michel Hazanavicius (director of Academy Award winner The Artist) and Dominique Mézerette, who already did two short movies using the same way, enjoyed very much that decision and they picked their choice amongst the whole bunch of flicks. The whole job was done in six months."

This now cult-classic French comedy has only been broadcasted twice on Canal+ back in 1993 and once in the 2000s on another channel in France. Most people have discovered it on the Internet with poor quality VHSrip copies and original Betacam copies, until Sam Hocevar reconstructed it using DVDs of the original movies. (See the list here on Sam's website: http://cyclim.se/flims.html)

Now, it's been years since this DVD-sourced version has been made, and now, more and more of the original movies exist in HD. So, since Sam Hocevar's site has not been updated for years, I guess he's too busy to undertake an HD reconstruction, so I was considering giving it a shot. I'm currently harvesting all the HD movies I can find, and the DVDs of those I can't find in HD. The idea would be to use DaVinci Resolve for editing and color grading. This would be my first attempt at editing. Now there is a catch: some shots use special effects, such as split screens (see here at 13:27 and 14:00, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44WKAtZLjI&t=193s) fade-ins for flashbacks, loops so that a shot replays itself backwards, and even a mask to hide a character. So there's some challenges here.

Sam went with a constant 1.78:1 aspect ratio, since all movies have various aspect ratios. I would rather go with a 2.00:1 aspect ratio to less butcher the framing of scope movies. Also, Sam didn't seem to have done color correction, so I would like to do some to better sell the illusion with consistency in shots taken from different movies. I guess I would do it in 720p because of DVD upscales to better blend in and the cropping of the scope ARs to 2.00:1.

You can watch the original on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44WKAtZLjI&t=193s
And the DVD-sourced reconstruction here, with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdW0oqGX1c&t=54s

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  Syncing clips in Davinci Resolve
Posted by: trondmm - 2019-08-12, 05:36 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring - No Replies

Hi.

I'm using Avisynth in my projects at the moment, but I'm looking to get started with DaVinci Resolve.

In my projects, I usually have a source file of low quality of the entire TV episode I want to fix, and multiple sources in high quality that includes parts of the original source. In AviSynth, I will usually use StackHorizontal to compare the original to one other source at a time, to find out where to trim the replacement.

Is there a simple way to do the same in Resolve?

(for simplicity, let's assume there are no frame rate issues between the sources)

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  Who Am I (1998) - Extended Cut Subtitles Removal
Posted by: bendermac - 2019-08-10, 04:30 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

There is a WEB-DL from Amazon Japan around of the movie in the original Asian Cut. The only problem with it is that it has hardcoded Japanese subtitles throughout the movie. I have a copy of the Japanese DVD as well, with the same cut of the movie, but without hardcoded subtitles, except for locations information.
I would propose to mix these two together to make a proper version of it. I've see you guys can do wonder in subtitle removal.

Both releases are in 2.35:1 Smile

There is also the Australian Blu-ray. Unfortunately it's cropped, so it may not work on all scenes.

What do you guys say?

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  Van Helsing (2004) [Fundamental Collection]
Posted by: spoRv - 2019-08-07, 05:05 AM - Forum: In progress - Replies (10)

Prologue:

thinking about this movie since a long time, still was undecided what to do with it... sure, color grading was bad and surely wrong... also, there is a 1.33:1 full screen version... so, my first thought was an UAR version - open matte WEB + full screen DVD regraded using a telesync.

Done quite some tests, with nice results, then, few days ago... BOOM!

Van Helsing (2004) [Fundamental Collection]

Found a Russian DVD: open matte, with bigger image than WEB, and, most important, theatrical colors - master is from a release print, including cigarette burns! Much, MUCH better colors (and contrast) than BD (and other DVDs), I always said the latter had wrong colors, but reading reviews here and there, nobody noted it... are they all color blind?!?

The Russian DVD quality is fair, but it has a geometrical distortion; I managed to fix it, along with the usual basic noise reduction, mild sharpening and at the end the grain plate. In comparison to simple upscale, result was good, but not up to the WEB - which is a bit worst than BD sometimes, but still with a bit more image than the 1.85:1 BD.

So, I tried to slap the WEB on top of the upscaled DVD, and result seems good; done some brief tests, and until now it seems to work well, but I noted that in few shots they do not align well, so more work is needed.

Moviefingerprints - top BD, bottom Fundamental Collection:

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http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/DLW7WNNX

Screenshots - top BD, bottom Fundamental Collection:

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http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/DLW7PNNX
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/JB09CNNU

ETA: dunno, but not ages - I still miss all audio and subtitle tracks, and you all know that I'll never release a project without all the needed ones, so... Big Grin

P.S. albeit fullscreen DVD has quite more image on top and bottom in comparison to BD, it has not so much more in comparison to Russian DVD; more, quality is lacking, and color grading is the same of BD/WEB, hence I decided to DO NOT an UAR version - just in case someone is wondering... Wink

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  Sin City extended cut
Posted by: Beber - 2019-08-03, 06:25 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

Hey, guys.

Has anybody ever made an extended cut of the movie Sin City? I mean, editing back the extra footage of each story into the full movie runtime, 'cause the recut and extended versions are presented in seperate segments on DVD and Blu-ray. I'd like to see the whole thing as a movie instead of seperate 40ish-minute episodes.

Videowise, I noticed for the movie that the Japanese BD is 1.78 AR, while the US and French are 1.85.
The recut & extended stories are 1.85 AR on the US BD and 1.78 on the French one.

Audiowise, depending on the BD, there are 5.1 and 7.1 mixes for the movie, but only 5.1 for the recut and extended stories, apparently.

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  The Lion King (1994) Trailers from CAV LD
Posted by: bendermac - 2019-08-03, 01:22 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (6)

Hello friends

can someone who has the CAV Box LD please capture the video (lossless video ProRes 422, DNxHD or Animation Codec) and uncompressed (bit-perfect) audio?

I'd like to upgrade my trailer re-edit to the best possible version Smile

Thanks Smile

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  Nvidia Quadro
Posted by: FrankT - 2019-08-03, 12:07 AM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (14)

I heard that the Nvidia Quadro line of graphics cards are suited to the task of fan restorations - they can turn a two-hour rendering job into a two-minute job. However, the latest RTX costs far more than I can spare. Does anyone here have a Quadro or something similar, and can they tell me if it's any good?

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  From the Earth to the Moon
Posted by: FrankT - 2019-08-01, 07:08 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (1)

This year being the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, I thought I'd go back to this series. However, the Blu-ray has not only been cropped into widescreen (like the Signature Edition DVDs, no less!), but they also redid the CGI. I can mostly understand why, except they already upscaled some of that CGI for Pixels, apparently, and it looked good there! So I thought, perhaps I should look into upscaling the whole series as it used to be. It's quite a ways off yet - I'm lacking the resources to actually do anything substantial. Unless of course, someone else would like to try it?

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